2008 Woodie Awards
Fantasy sports more than just a fantasy
Colleen Sheehy
Issue date: 11/3/06 Section: Sports
Originally published: 11/2/06 at 6:49 PM EST
Last update: 11/2/06 at 6:49 PM EST
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You can own Tom Brady. You can have a pitching staff full of Cy-Young winners. You can bench LeBron James and play Chris Bosh instead. Why one would do this is questionable, yet still a possibility in the world of fantasy sports.
The premise is simple; you and a bunch of your buddies get together and form a league, with one being the commissioner who makes the rules. You make up your clever dirty team names which sometimes pertain to body parts and on rare occasions, the actual sport itself.
The draft is what some believe to be the most fun. Junior Matt Wolff is currently involved in two fantasy football teams and has participated in an online draft.
"I like the draft because it is an opportunity to take your favorite players and even though it is time consuming, its a lot of fun."
Leagues can opt for an offline draft, where everyone gets together with countless amounts of stat sheets and rosters, picks their own draft order and just goes at it.
The online draft takes place on the Web site and the draft order is selected randomly by the program or the commissioner can set one in.
When all is said and done, some leagues tend to put a little wager on the season, making it crucial for them to spend every second of free time tuning up their team for that extra $50 six months down the road.
Depending on the sport, each team has a set number of seats per position on the roster, and on the bench. It is up to the manager to put in a player for each position, every day. Teams can face off head-to-head or rotisserie style. As players perform in the game, their stats go directly to you as your team racks up hits, points, touchdowns, whatever sport it may be. You can even propose and conduct trades with other teams. And the object is for your team to, obviously, get more points than the other. Simple, right?
The fantasy world is vastly growing and extending to all areas in the world of sports, and even government. Fantasy golf, NASCAR, bass fishing, gymnastics and even fantasy congress have all surfaced on the web. Not to mention the hundreds of sports stat sites and fantasy hubs. Fantasy sports tend to have a way of taking over your Internet, and cutting into everyone's precious Facebook time.
The premise is simple; you and a bunch of your buddies get together and form a league, with one being the commissioner who makes the rules. You make up your clever dirty team names which sometimes pertain to body parts and on rare occasions, the actual sport itself.
The draft is what some believe to be the most fun. Junior Matt Wolff is currently involved in two fantasy football teams and has participated in an online draft.
"I like the draft because it is an opportunity to take your favorite players and even though it is time consuming, its a lot of fun."
Leagues can opt for an offline draft, where everyone gets together with countless amounts of stat sheets and rosters, picks their own draft order and just goes at it.
The online draft takes place on the Web site and the draft order is selected randomly by the program or the commissioner can set one in.
When all is said and done, some leagues tend to put a little wager on the season, making it crucial for them to spend every second of free time tuning up their team for that extra $50 six months down the road.
Depending on the sport, each team has a set number of seats per position on the roster, and on the bench. It is up to the manager to put in a player for each position, every day. Teams can face off head-to-head or rotisserie style. As players perform in the game, their stats go directly to you as your team racks up hits, points, touchdowns, whatever sport it may be. You can even propose and conduct trades with other teams. And the object is for your team to, obviously, get more points than the other. Simple, right?
The fantasy world is vastly growing and extending to all areas in the world of sports, and even government. Fantasy golf, NASCAR, bass fishing, gymnastics and even fantasy congress have all surfaced on the web. Not to mention the hundreds of sports stat sites and fantasy hubs. Fantasy sports tend to have a way of taking over your Internet, and cutting into everyone's precious Facebook time.
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